The Poetic & Prose Eddas
← all texts · Norse & Germanic · compiled 13th c. CE; older tradition
What this is
The two Eddas are the main source for Norse mythology — the Poetic Edda's mythic and heroic lays (the Völuspá's creation-to-Ragnarök), and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda systematizing the lore of Odin🎨, Thor🎨 and Loki🎨.
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The gods & things in it
Baldr🎨 Bragi🎨 Freyja🎨 Freyr🎨 Frigg🎨 Heimdall🎨 Hel🎨 Iðunn🎨 Loki🎨 Njörðr🎨 Odin🎨 Sif🎨 Skaði🎨 Thor🎨 Týr🎨 Víðarr🎨Companion reading path
What to read alongside it, and why.
The Kalevala
Finnic
The neighboring Northern epic — Finnic myth beside Germanic.
Hesiod — Theogony
Greek
Compare the Norse cosmogony (Ginnungagap, the world-tree) with the Greek.